Good info. I'm not a "fanboy" at all, but we all have some biases. I actually suspected that some of the stuff I'd read about glock mags being inherently more reliable than sten or uzi may have been less than accurate.

Oh I wasn't suggesting you were a fan boy. There are a lot of them on the internet and they tend to make wild claims. It can be difficult to filter the noise from the good data.

I'm guessing you have a 33rnd glock mag. Go find a sub gun mag and look at them next to each other. I'm guessing the whole thing will become very apparent on it's own.

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Smith and Wesson was bought by a British company in the late 80s. They changed the way the company made firearms. Cheapened production and released some real turds. They released the sigma and stopped pinning the barrels on their revolvers. The icing on the cake was when they made a deal with the Clintons to help keep their guns out of kids and felons hands and ultimately included the "Hillary hole" on all their revolvers.

People hated what S&W had become in the 90s and this deal was tantamount to sleeping with the enemy. Furious, people very quickly stopped buying S&W products. They were nearly put out of business until they were sold back to a US company in 2001 that makes hammer safeties. The new US owners apologized for the dipshittedness of the previous owners and then rebuilt both the R&D and manufacturing to the pre-british standards. People were somewhat cautious about buying S&W again but that changed when S&W started pumping out new designs like the X-Frame in the new .500 S&W and a few years later the M&P in S&W's favorite auto caliber.

So to answer your question, they exist as a statement to the shooting public that the previous decade of shitty british ownership punctuated by low cap civilian mags, shitty manufacturing, horrible warranty support and the "we hate you" attitude was officially over. Specifically it said "Let's burn this motherfucker down!" which the shooting public ate up. Turns out they're fun to shoot and are killer hunting calibers.

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So are we still doing this thread? I've been out of work for a week after surgery and decided to build all the lowers pictured. I somehow built them without losing any detents or springs while in bed with a leg in a cast. Left to right: 6.5 Grendel, 5.56, .300BO, .458 SOCOM, 7.62x39.

They all have MIAD grips now. They were shipped late for some reason.

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